Theory of Programming and Political Economy

This paperintroduces the theory of economic programming on the basis of the basic modelof Production of Commodities by Means ofCommodities with special care of two points: the union of the qualitativeand quantitative analysis and the contextualization of the historicaldevelopment of the input-output economics. The model of Sraffa, the Leontiefmatrices and the Political Economy of Marxist tradition, represented by theintroduction to econometrics by Oskar Lange, are related with help of theconcepts of planning and the law of value.